Format:
Book
Title:
The Madonna connection : representational politics, subcultural identities, and cultural theory / edited by Cathy Schwichtenberg.
Call Number:
306.0973 M266
Publisher, Date:
Boulder : Westview Press, 1992.
Description:
xi, 336 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"Various cultural theories (foremost among them, postmodernism) have figured in the debate over the politics of representation. These theories have tended to look at representation in the context of either audience enablement or commercial constraint; that is, do the images empower the public or inhibit it? One key area consistently overlooked has been the study of subcultural or subordinate groups that appropriate what is traditionally considered "mainstream.""--BOOK JACKET. "The Madonna Connection is the first book to address the complexities of race, gender, and sexuality in popular culture by using the influence of a cultural heroine to advance cultural theory. Madonna's use of various media - music, concert tour, film, and video - serves as a paradigm by which the contributors study how images and symbols associated with subcultural groups (multiracial, gay and lesbian, feminist) are smuggled into the mainstream. Using a range of critical and interpretive approaches to this evolving and lively cultural phenomenon, the contributors demonstrate the importance of personalities like Madonna to issues of enablement and constraint."--BOOK JACKET. "Are "others" given voice by political interventions in mass popular culture? Or is their voice co-opted to provide mere titillation and maximum profit? What might the interplay of these views suggest? These are some of the questions the contributors attempt to answer. Some celebrate Madonna's affirmation of cultural diversity. Others criticize her flagrant self-marketing strategies. And still others regard her as only a provisional challenge to the mainstream."--BOOK JACKET.
Series:
Cultural studies
Cultural studies.
Subjects:
Madonna, 1958- -- Influence.
Popular culture -- United States.
Contents:
Introduction: Connections/Intersections / Cathy Schwichtenberg -- Pt. 1. Out of Bounds: Reading Race and Madonna's Audiences. 1. "A Sacred Monster in Her Prime": Audience Construction of Madonna as Low-Other / Laurie Schulze, Anne Barton White and Jane D. Brown. 2. Madonna T/Races: Music Videos Through the Prism of Color / Thomas K. Nakayama and Lisa N. Penaloza. 3. Images of Race and Religion in Madonna's Video Like a Prayer: Prayer and Praise / Ronald B. Scott -- 2. The Sapphic Insurgent: Madonna and Gay Culture. 4. Embodying Subaltern Memory: Kinesthesia and the Problematics of Gender and Race / Cindy Patton. 5. Justify Our Love: Madonna and the Politics of Queer Sex / Lisa Henderson. 6. Madonna's Postmodern Feminism: Bringing the Margins to the Center / Cathy Schwichtenberg -- 3. Gender Trouble: Madonna Poses the Feminist Question. 7. Madonna Politics: Perversion, Repression, or Subversion? Or Masks and/as Master-y / E. Ann Kaplan. 8. Feminist Politics and Postmodern Seductions: Madonna and the Struggle for Political Articulation / Roseann M. Mandziuk. 9. Seduction, Control, and the Search for Authenticity: Madonna's Truth or Dare / E. Deidre Pribram. 10. Don't Go for Second Sex, Baby! / Melanie Morton -- 4. The Political Economy of Postmodernism: Madonna as Star-Commodity. 11. Metatextual Girl: [arrow pointing right] patriarchy [arrow pointing right] postmodernism [arrow pointing right] power [arrow pointing right] money [arrow pointing right] Madonna / David Tetzlaff. 12. "Material Girl": The Effacements of Postmodern Culture / Susan Bordo. 13. The Distance Between Me and You: Madonna and Celestial Navigation (or You Can Be My Lucky Star) / Greg Seigworth.
ISBN:
0813313961